How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI 37signals: tl;dr: We made Basecamp Next go woop-woop fast by using a fancy HTML5 feature and some serious elbow grease on them caching wheels (tagged: pushState caching pjax 37signals ) The PHP Singularity Coding Horror: If you want to produce free-as-in-whatever […]
Recently, while working my way through a strange issue with my shell’s $PATH, 1 I had the chance to take a (semi) deep dive into how OS X constructs the $PATH. I’m jotting these notes down here in part for myself, and hopefully so someone else won’t have to do the same amount of… archaeology. […]
Someone is Coming to Eat You Rands: …the future is invented by the people who don’t give a shit about the past. (tagged: essay innovation ) the recruiter honeypot By Elaine Wherry. A bit long and Silicon Valley-centric, but an interesting read about recruiting and recruiters. (tagged: essay essa LinkedIn hiring recruiting ) Asgard: Web-based […]
With Alien Contact, Marty Halpern presents us with an anthology of science fiction short stories predicated on (what else?) first contact with alien species. I was looking for exactly such an anthology, and in my desperation to find such a thing, I decided to start a rumor that John Joseph Adams 1 was going to […]
(“Holden: age 3”, on Flickr.) This post is a couple days late, but just the same. You’ve turned four. You became a big brother. And you are become a person that I am proud to call my son.
Advice on Learning Joe Conway on learning Erlang (and learning in a more general sense): Knowing all of the wrong ways to solve a problem is just as important as knowing the right way, by the way. (tagged: mentorship learning ) The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy) Nicholas Zakas: […]
The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia Who else? Matt Taibbi, at Rolling Stone: That doesn't sound like much. But when added to the other fractions of a percent stolen from basically every other town in America on every other bond issued by Wall Street in the past 10 to 15 years, it starts […]
About six weeks ago, I started using Prismatic and entered it into my daily 1 routine. It’s like your own personal “best of the web” that gets smarter about your interests as you go along. I’m still feeling as positive about it now as I was after the first 24 hours. Ever since that post, […]
Single-direction margin declarations By Harry Roberts, writing at CSS Wizardry: I’m not sure how I arrived at this rule, but I’m really glad I did and I would likely never ever change it. The basic premise is that you should try and define all your margins in one direction. This means always use margin-bottom to […]
In Imagine: How Creativity Works, Jonah Lehrer presents a series of experimental findings and narratives, and draws them together into an optimistic thesis on creativity and innovation. But there are two books here: there’s the successful book, the book where Lehrer is a capable wordsmith with a knack for describing and synthesizing these scientific findings […]